Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for other jurists , six out of eleven cases seem to be interpolated , so we are left with five , one of Pomponius and four of Paul . |
| 2 | Fifty prisoners had to be evacuated while firefighters dealt with it . |
| 3 | They had explained that microlighting was like a return to the early days of flying but two emergency landings within eight minutes seemed to be stretching nostalgia too far . |
| 4 | They had explained that microlighting was like a return to the early days of flying but two emergency landings within eight minutes seemed to be stretching nostalgia too far . |
| 5 | THE Eight Bells seemed to be one of those pubs that do most of their trade in the late evenings , for at seven o'clock the saloon bar was deserted . |
| 6 | The biosynthesis of type 2 chains seems to be regulated differently to type 1 chains , however , because Lewis X , the type 2 isomer of Lewis a , is not present to any extent in normal rectum . |
| 7 | For example , the Leipzig office of the Treuhand , one of 15 , has only 43 people to deal with 800 companies queuing to be privatised . |
| 8 | The main problem for engineers was the location of underground rivers in the area , and more than 300 columns had to be put in to support the shopping centre . |
| 9 | This would allow 2 x 2 weeks holidays to be taken per year for ( 1 ) plus 1 x 1 weeks holiday to be taken per year for ( 2 ) . |
| 10 | There are many parallels between the individual human being and the Earth , and in the mid-1930s ideas began to be put forward about ‘ earth energies ’ , linking the long tradition of life energy with the suggestion of place-related energies revealed in folklore . |
| 11 | 16.31 Pupils need to be aware of the richness of contemporary writing , but they should also be introduced to pre-20th century literature . |
| 12 | Trial two consisted of crop dusting 21 males aged 22 to 50 years for three consecutive days ( only 12 men remained to be sprayed all three days ) . |
| 13 | Indeed , even at the time of the negotiations which led up to the SEA the European Communities ( EC ) Commission ( the Civil Service which administers the communities from Brussels ) estimated that in excess of 300 measures remained to be adopted before the problem of what came to be called ‘ non-Europe ’ could be said to have been fully addressed . |
| 14 | Consequently , the other 115 clauses had to be handled in 62 hours . |
| 15 | The Class 156 units ceased to be part of this operation from the 8th of July and presumably the temporary expedient of bus backup is in force if extra capacity is required . |
| 16 | On March 10 refugees began to be moved to camps near Palermo , Naples , Venice and other towns , while 2,000 returned voluntarily to Durrës , where the Albanian authorities had undertaken to receive them sympathetically . |
| 17 | The six lambs have to be handreared as their natural mothers have enough to cope with . |
| 18 | Of these 123 , a full interview was obtained with l04 principal carers at the time of the patient 's referral to the project ( six carers refused to be interviewed , and it was not possible to interview a further nine for reasons such as the carer 's ill health or death or because the patient and carer soon moved out of the area ; for the remaining four some information was obtained by telephone ) . |
| 19 | By March some 54 officers and soldiers accused of participating in the coup were in military custody , including six officers believed to be key leaders , such as Brig. -Gen . |
| 20 | The council has over 6,000 on the waiting list and over 100 families having to be put up in bed-and-breakfast accommodation . |
| 21 | The missing boat is what is known as a 10-metre rule-beater built to get round the Government 's ruling that boats over 10 metres have to be licensed and adhere to controversial fishing quotas . |
| 22 | The first forcible repatriations to Vietnam under a new accord signed by the United Kingdom and Vietnamese governments on May 12 [ see p. 38912 ] took place on June 19 , when 28 Vietnamese adults and 10 children deemed to be " economic migrants " were sent back from Hong Kong . |
| 23 | The RSPCA has returned to the farm where six horses had to be destroyed last week because they were in such bad condition . |
| 24 | Six horses had to be shot . |
| 25 | The National Childbirth Trust believes at most one in thirteen births needs to be a caesarian but the present rate is one in eight . |
| 26 | Of the 300,000 women estimated to be doing home-work in Britain today 72 per cent receive less than the legal minimum hourly wage , three quarters of those get 1 ( $1.60 ) or less and some make as little as 20p ( 30 cents ) an hour . |
| 27 | Due to mechanical failure the remaining six races had to be abandoned . |
| 28 | Consequently , the other 171 clauses had to be considered in 61 hours . |
| 29 | With staples every 300m on each rafter , over 500 staples had to be pushed home . |
| 30 | For example , in the case of 10 securities only 32 calculations have to be made and in the case of 100 securities , only 302 calculations . |